The work of discovering humble youths with fine voices and of financing them along the path to glory, went on apace. A few weeks ago (TIME, Oct. 8), the young New Yorker Raggini, whose friends raised money for his studies by selling shares in his future. Now it is Antonio Benninatti, New Orleans shoemaker.
Antonio came to America eleven years ago with his family. When he reached the age of employmentan early agehe went to work for his brother, Nazareth, a shoemaker. But Antonio became only an indifferent cobbler. He learned to...
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